From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 19:16:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040D337B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:16:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from serv1.wallnet.com (server1.wallnet.com [208.225.162.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E9943F85 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:16:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) id h2K3GMe89563; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:16:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from 10.0.1.9 (mts-122.wallnet.com [208.225.162.54]) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5av) with ESMTP id h2K3GKM89555; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:16:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) From: Tim Kellers To: Brian McCann , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote X from another BSD Box Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:15:06 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <003d01c2ee8d$bdc503c0$2f811581@garfield> In-Reply-To: <003d01c2ee8d$bdc503c0$2f811581@garfield> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303192215.06888.timothyk@wallnet.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you setting your DISPLAY variable? for example: bash export $DISPLAY=(the IP address of the Open BSD box):0.0 or for the (t)csh >setenv DISPLAY (the IP address of the Open BSD box):0.0 where the :0.0 part is the number of the X display on your OpenBSD box Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Wednesday 19 March 2003 10:06 pm, Brian McCann wrote: > Hi all. I'd imagine this would be fairly simple since I got it to work > from Xmanager for Windows...but I'm having difficulties. I have 2 > boxes, both BSD (one FreeBSD, one OpenBSD). The FreeBSD box has a full > blown install of X with KDE and all kinds of stuff, the OpenBSD just has > a basic X installed with xdm. I'd like to be able to use the OpenBSD > box as a display for the FreeBSD box. I thought I'd just be able to ssh > into the FreeBSD box and run xmms, xcalc, xterm, whatever I wanted...but > no dice. Can someone help me out? > > Thanks, > --Brian > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message